OK, my CD Writer works perfectly, can be seen by all applications that need to and can access every type of disk I have apart from these disks which appear to be multi session. Does anyone know if there's a change I need to make to my fstab file to allow me to use multi session disks. By multi session I mean disks with CD Audio and Data tracks on them. Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology, but that's what I mean anyway. Any clues? I'm using SuSE 8.0 Jason

Jason Farmer wrote:

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Hi everyone.

I'm having problems getting to the data part of a CD. It happens with a couple of CD's that I own. One of which is Diskworld2, and the other is Filter - the Amalgamut

I know there's multimedia content on the drive but when I go to mount it I get a message,

Could not mount device. The reported error was: /dev/cdrecorder: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified

I can play the audio though.

My FSTab file has these settings. /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

Which version of SuSE? /dev/cdrecorder is not the device but a link. if you run:

ls -l /dev/cdrecorder

does it exist? Usually it's /dev/cdrecord. You can use:

hwinfo --cdrom

to find out which device exactly is your cd-rw.

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Well, That worked. Now is there a way to make this automatic? Can I edit fstab to allow for this format? Is it because the CD uses 2 different file systems so I have to tell it which one I'm interested in? Thanks for the help so far, at least I can now mount the CD. Regards Jason

Am Montag, 16. Dezember 2002 01:32 schrieb Jason Farmer:

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OK, my CD Writer works perfectly, can be seen by all applications that need to and can access every type of disk I have apart from these disks which appear to be multi session.

Does anyone know if there's a change I need to make to my fstab file to allow me to use multi session disks. By multi session I mean disks with CD Audio and Data tracks on them. Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology, but that's what I mean anyway.

Any clues?

I'm using SuSE 8.0

Jason

I had the same problem. When expicitly adding the FS-type it was possible to mount. So try

mount /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder -t iso9660

You need to be root.

Ralf

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